Brins Mesa Loop
Wife mentioned the Hummingbird Festival a few weeks ago, and being a good husband I took the hint and made arrangements to spend a day […]
Hiking
Sycamore Canyon Rim Loop
I divide my weekends up into blocks: roughly morning & afternoon, each day. I avoid taking on more than one activity per day, to leave […]
Picketpost Circumference
Would have liked to have started at first light, or about 0515, but because I figured my wife might like visiting nearby Boyce Thompson while […]
Cottonwood Spring Loop
Been really busy, and stressed out — work — lately, and so have not been exercising as much as I should have. (As an example, […]
A.T.: I-70 to Turner’s Gap
It was Thursday afternoon, and I was preparing to leave work, when I realized that although I would be in western Maryland for the weekend, […]
Davey Gowan’s Grave
Davey Gowan was a Scottish immigrant to the American Southwest. While prospecting in 1877, seeking refuge from Apache, he became the first white man to […]
South Fork Trail #46
Met up with mt98dew in the dark parking lot of a semi-abandoned old K-Mart at 32nd & Shea at 0530, flashing lights like an old […]
Little Saddle Mountain Trail #244
This morning’s pre-game meal was again courtesy of Rainbow Donuts, but to get some variety in my diet, I had a kolache (a sausage roll) […]
Ballantine Cabin & Corral
I tried finding some hiking partners, but I guess there was a football game on TV. Anyway, stopped at Rainbow Donuts on 7th St in Sunnyslope […]
Hackberry Spring Loop
This was my second time out to First Water TH, and though I knew the road was gravel, I had forgotten how bumpy the ride […]